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Me (and I'm sure many others) are losing the forum by forgetting to use the right button.

Can be fixed please?

Its not 'wrong', it is default behaviour that you have to hack a file that I've completely forgotten which file it is to change the function to open links in a new window. Every upgrade the change gets overwritten and goes back to normal.

The reason is given as:

Proper standards for "today's web" state that you shouldn't dictate to a user how the link opens. The user can already control this themself by ctrl+clicking, right click -> open in new window, middle clicking, and a number of other options. In fact, in XHTML Strict doctype (which we use) there is no "target" attribute for the anchor tag anymore, so the specifications don't even *allow* you to control this.

Our setting resorts to a javascript method that can be added elsewhere if needed. Realistically, though, your members should be left to make this decision on their own imo.

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Its not 'wrong', it is default behaviour that you have to hack a file that I've completely forgotten which file it is to change the function to open links in a new window. Every upgrade the change gets overwritten and goes back to normal.

The reason is given as:

I'm not a computer guy or something, but on my website I use: <a href="http://www.linked.website" target="_blank"> and it helps.